TeJays Surprise (Waikato) Ongarue, North Island, New Zealand
By psychrn on 16-Aug-12. Waypoint GC3TTKH

Cannot find anyone to take over so this one will have to be archived unfortunately

No, it isn't here. Needs to be archived as CO appears to have abandoned it.

Im looking for a local to adopt this cache is anyone able to help??

This geocacher reported that this geocache should be archived. A community volunteer reviewer has been notified.

Hi

It appears that this cache has been inactive for quite some time. Is it going to be replaced or should it be archived to make room for possible future caches? If the cache owner does not contact me within Three Weeks, I'll assume the cache needs to be archived.

While I feel that Geocaching.com should hold the location for you and block other cachers from entering the area around this cache for a reasonable amount of time, we can't do so forever. Please either repair/replace this cache, or archive it so that someone else can place a cache in the area, and geocachers can once again enjoy visiting this location. Also, if you haven’t done so already, please pick up any remaining cache bits as soon as possible.

I want to thank you for the time that you have taken to contribute to geocaching in the past and am looking forward to seeing your cache up and running in the future.

Thanks for your understanding,

Regards,
TheCur8or
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I hadn't read the Activities before venturing out today so wasn't aware this cache is missing. After playing a game of "Who's going to leave first" with a muggle, I utilised my time by cleaning out my car which really needed it and using the rather large bins to deposit my rubbish in when he finally gave in and left. Yippee I win!
I had a look around all the hint objects including GZ and can confirm this cache is missing. I then spent some time watching a local farmer fell scrub across the road before leaving with a much lighter car.

This geocacher reported that there is a problem with this cache.

Heading to the MEGA event in Upper Hut, Wellington, down a not so common trail for us to thin out a few caches along the way and the hopefully on the way back Monday.

Muggles were out in force due to the good sunny weather, so this one allowed me to make a find without too much attention.

Had a good look around here and was not able to uncover this hide....might need to be looked at by the CO.

Appears to be missing as DNF's since February 2018.

Saw that there had been some finds and DNFs since my last visit so another look was in order.
Chilli morning and freezing fingers poking around under each likely candidate. Still a DNF for me unfortunately.

Needs Maintenance

Mission aborted, a very sad day for this bear. DNF Couldn't find it
This log posted with CacheSense for Andriod

This would've been a P&G for ReCached and me, but unfortunately we couldn't find the container after a few minutes looking for it in places described in the hint. Instead we discovered a dozen huge courgettes somebody had laid in the leaves under the tree. I think this counts as one of the strangest things we've seen while geocaching.

February 8, 2018 @ 16:22

Grabbed this while an 80 yr old said hello from across the road whilst on his horse, rounding up sheep [8]

Found on our way home to Hamilton. We broke the trip up with several cache stops. Many thanks for the cache.

Thanks

recently found so will re enable this in the meantime

Rain here too but at least it has cooled it down a little. No one here probably because of the rain. TFTC

Looks like its in need of attention

On the way to Tongoriro we did look for some caches. This was one of them but we didn't find it.
It seems to have disappeared.
Team Mavos - Albert and Maria

Stopped here many a time in the past. This time to grab a cache.
Unfortunately it's missing.
Looked under every rock, and given it's large enough for swag, I'm pretty confident it's gone.

I think someone must have taken it not knowing what it was they found

Pretty close to a drive by as we parked right beside it. Quick find and log signed and left as found.

This is a nice spot but looking worse for wear given the litter dropped and left in great amounts by the bins.

Thanks for the leg stretch on our way north.

On the way back towards Hamilton, I stopped to grab a couple of caches. This was the first. No issues finding, nice little spot
TFTC psychrn, the cache was found in good order Signed, sealed and returned to GZ. 5 find(s) of 7 today, making this find #1642

Rest stop means high chance of a cache so every excuse to pull over. Plus got to help some travelling lasses pull their car from the mud. TFTC

Quick grab on a late night drive to the next town

On my way from Waitomo to Ohakune, I wanted to find some caches along the way. This one was found quickly, thanks for hiding!

Our journey todey goes from Tongariro to Te Awamutu. But we have enough time to found some caches near the road. So we found this one.
Thanks for showing this places and hidding the caches. Greetings from Germany!!!

Found while driving south after visiting Te Awamutu for the weekend. A good place to give the dog a break from the car. TFTC

A quick easy find while stopping to let the dog out for a sniff. Tftc!

On my way to Hamilton for the North Island National Dahlia show. Had to find some caches on the way. Picked up TB. Thanks for the cache.

Visited here with Pagenz only to come across someone having a break here eating their lunch and viewing the burnt out car. I did the distraction thing and Pagenz found the cache. Thanks

No trackable I could see. Team Welsh distracted a muggle who had stopped to investigate the burnt out car, and I went in for the find. That car is something else, even the glass of the passenger's window had melted, T4tc

On the way home from Auckland found a burnt out car. This is the 4 the time I tried to find this cache tftc

Great views up here today.

Found it! Thanks for bringing us here.

We found that one during our holidays in nz. TFTC

On my way to Feilding on my own, so can stop where and when I like.
Cheers

Nice quick find while being watched by a chicken. TFTC!

TFTC. QEF. Found while driving from Wellington to Waitomo. Needed to stretch.

The surprise about this cache is that I'm even here to find it!went to rotorua for the weekend but on returning home I got stopped at mokau due to a slip sotaking the looooonnnnggggway home via tamaranui and wanganui. Nice stop here no travel bugs in cache. A lovely couple in a motorhome I followed from piopio offered me a hot drink. Tftc

Heading up the line for a week of r&r and taking a couple of days to get to my destination, caching on the way. Quick stop and discovered a trio of Buddhist monks there having lunch. Parked the car to give me some cover and quickly found the cache. TFTC

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Tftc

DNT because it was not there

Replaced container and log tftc thanks

found with pjhunt2

didn't find it

I don't thing there is a cache under any of the rocks because I didn't find it.

Great stash. Quick park n grab. Tftc

Stopped here on my way down to the Central Plateau, from Auckland, and took a look for this cache, which was a nice easy find. Picked up a pathtag as a bonus, but none of the listed TBs are in the cache. TFTC!

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On our journey to New Zealand, xhead and I travelled to the South and the North Island and to Stewart Island. We had a lot of fun hiking in these great landscapes, viewing a lot of interesting animals and nice peoples. Sometimes a little treasure likes this Cache was crossing our way. Thank you very much for hiding this Cache in this amazing place.
Greetings from Germany, Akirey

Akirey and I visited in April and May New Zealand. First we decided to look around on the South Island including Steward Island then we went to the North Island.
All the time we enjoyed our trip. We saw a lot of sweet animals, amazing landscapes and met many nice people.

Also we searched for some caches. This one was one of them.

Thanks for hiding and greetings from Frankonia
xhead

Heading south on the third leg of my holiday journey so decided to grab as many "drive by" caches as possible. Had to dodge a campervan and friendly mower man to snatch this one. TN, left a pathtag. TFTC psychrn

On a round road trip from Stratford via Whangamomona and the forgotten highway and Piopio this was a nice spot to pull off the road for a cache. TFTC

A quick find on the way to the Tongariro National Park.

on the way to wellington we stoped sometimes for a geocache. thanks for showing the places and the cache, greetings from germany.

Found it with wurftaube. TFTC!

A nice hiding place in what could be a busy spot on a good day! Got it while driving to the Timber Trail Tftc

On my way to Tongariro. TFTC

2.20pm - No problems to park right beside cache. No travel bugs in container so hope a cacher has picked them up to move on. SLTFTC

With Gap (of Fap and Gap)... A cache-hunting road trip into the King Country. The day started out bright and sunny, but the dark clouds rolled in as soon as we crossed over the hills on Highway 41...

We arrived to find a quiet rest stop and a couple of possibilities for hides. We managed to park close enough to make this a quick stop, park and grab. TFTC.

A quick find thanx to the hint. It is a very hot day and hardly any shadow her, so we soon continued our trip
TFTC

Was travelling to Mt Ruapehu for a walk and decided to go through this way, this was a nice quick find but there were no TB's in the cache.

TFTC


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The summer holiday this year was to visit the far North. We decided to take our time and travel with just short trips and stop over to visit friends/relatives rather than one big long drive through to Whangarei, so there was a little time allowed for geocaching, although this was fairly restricted. We planned a couple of longer stays at campsites where we used our tent and at other times we were at friends or cabins/motels. Some of the caches took us to a little out of the way places but these were really worthwhile, while others we discovered and visited and as luck would have it there was also a cache! The logging of these cache has had to wait until we got to relatives, on the whole.
This is a fairly generic log with additional notes about individual caches that had something extra that remained in my memory.
Thanks for the cache and another smiley face.

Nice spot for breakfast in the caravan

Nice little break in the journey thanks

Funnily enough we stopped here I our way to our holiday destination but never turned on the GPS ! Stopped non the way home - was nice and dry. Tftc

Funny, checked all hint items except the correct on. One last look and there it was. Doh. Cheers.

The holiday season at last! Off to Auckland to see my folks. Caching all the way.

Thanks to all the CO's for their hides.

Quick find. Thanks for the nice stop with the cache.

Thanks for the great view!!

On our travel through New-Zealand we visited some really nice places.

Thanks to all Owner to show us all this places.

Greets from Cologne /Germany

Gitschel

Tftc

Nice easy find

On our way home to taumarunui. Easy find. Kids found it before i steped foot out of the van. Thanks for the cache

Heading to Taumarunui on a road trip to grap a souvenir EarthCache and it's well into dark. After a DNF at the last cache I decided to pull into this layby and call it a night. So it wasn't only TeJays Surprise but mine too when I discovered this was a geocache location. After parking up it was a quick find in the dark, dinner and not a bad night's sleep - only interrupted by loooong trains on the nearby N.I.M.T. line.
In the morning I did a quick CITO after breakfast and back on the road. Nice location. Thanks for bringing me here.

TFTC

On a north island road trip with my father who I am introducing to Geocaching. Started in Napier and are heading right up to Cape Reinga! Thank you for placing this cache.

A fun find on a road we have travelled many times. TFTC!

A twelve and a half hour road trip from New Plymouth down to Whanganui then up to Pipiriki, across to Raetihi then up to Taumarunui, and back to New Plymouth via Piopio. Eighteen caches in all; not a huge number but we were after interesting places to visit rather than lots of finds.

We picked up a few outstanding local caches, then stopped for lunch at a nice little café in Whanganui before carrying on.

We didn't find this one as we were searching in the dark with outdated coordinates. Logging as a note rather than a DNF though, as the cache is most likely still in place. We'll probably be back some time.

After an amazing weekend snowboarding on Mt Ruapehu with friends I left our accommodation after a great breakfast to head back to Auckland. Had to wait till some muggles left before I was able to sign the log. TFTC

An easy find, nice spot to relax before returning to my journey to wanganui. There is food in this cache!

Our first Geocache! Kael (8) found this treasure totally unexpectedly... and now we are excited to find more. Kael took two Piggie souvineers and left three surprises! Onwards!

Our first one out of Auckland!

THERE WERE NO TRACKABLES IN THIS CACHE TODAY??? Quick park and grab for us on our way home. Master SethRaven got out and found this one all by himself!! Was very pleased and bought it back to the car so he and his sister could trade some items. TFTC

Found on a cool autumn morning. The pulloff reminds me of Avery in UK with the stones. TFTC

Stopped om this nice parking. Searched for it and found it through the hint.
Put our TB Stamp in the logbook.

TFTC Team Klijnschatje
The Netherlands

Heading home from a weekend at Ohakune. Our 6 year old traded her badge for a pterodactyl. Thank you!

Waited ages for muggles to go TFTC

Heading south for Easter and made a quick stop at this popular picnic stop. MrNZT feigned tired stretches at GZ and made a quick grab. Cache was in good condition and nicely stocked with toys. TFTC

Heading down to National Park for the weekend. Noticed another car in the layby as we pulled in but they weren't parked near GZ. Parked the car the best I could to shield what I was up to, but the muggles in the other car weren't to interested in what I was up to. Quick find before continuing on our way.

Was surprised at just how straight forward this little cache was. TFTC

At last a place to stop with a caravan behind and time for lunch. Located quickly before hunger overtook us. Thanks

Heading down to Wanganui and New Plymouth for a few days - a nice find in a nice spot

TFTC

Kids enjoyed looking for the cache.

604 A stop over on the way to Taumarunui to start the Whanganui paddle.

Found on the return journey to Auckland after a weekend in Ohakune. Thanks for the break in the journey.

Easy find nice spot many thanks.

on our long holiday to taranaki and back to gisborne, a loop track. a nice cache, welcome break on our travels.

This entry was edited by dragon gem on Thursday, 29 January 2015 at 02:18:08 UTC.

Quick stop on way home. Nicely hidden TFTC